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...TIME'S cover this ' week has been fracturing friends and audiences for years with this brand of humor. For Bennett Cerf, astute publisher, is also well known on TV and off as an addicted punster. As such, he has a large, sympathetic but highly competitive following among TIME writers. The urge seems to be irresistible. The signs of a practicing paronomasian at work are easy to spot: the writer hunched over his typewriter chuckling to himself, the smile twitching the corner of his mouth as he turns the story in to be edited, the expectant grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 16, 1966 | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

Actually, there is no mystery here. Bennett Alfred Cerf, 68, is an open book. Board chairman of Random House, he is the nation's best-known book publisher-better known than many of the authors he serves. He is also perpetrator of a syndicated joke column and author of 21 joke and riddle books that have sold more than 5,000,000 copies, and a longtime panelist on that somewhat tiresome but seemingly indestructible TV parlor game, What's My Line? Wherever he goes, autograph hounds bark at his heels. Little ol|i ladies leap out of dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: A Cerfit of Riches | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...Lampoon has announced the election of the following officers: Jonathan F. Cerf '68 of Lowell House and New York, president; Peter J. Gabel '68 of Lowell House and New York, Ibis; and Conn Nugent '68 of Leverett House and Larchmont, New York, Narthex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon Elects | 12/13/1966 | See Source »

...third, Random House has dropped the word count of big dictionaries to 260,000 from an average of 400,000. Thus it may qualify as the first heavyweight dictionary truly designed for ordinary definition seekers. And beyond that, it is the first dictionary that has had Bennett Cerf, board chairman of Random House and senior constellation of the longtime TV show What's My Line, promoting it all across the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Word | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...that Webster's Third contains more words (it has 450,000 of the roughly half-million in the English language). Between parade and paradise, for example, the new dictionary omits such Webster's words-mostly medicalese-as para-dental, paradentitis, paraden-tium, paradentosis, parader-mal, paradesmose, paradiazine. Cerf argues that such entries are "words no one would ever use or has ever heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Language: Newest Dictionary | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

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